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In this paper, we investigate a nonlinear inverse problem aimed at recovering a coefficient $a(t, x)$, dependent on both time and a subset of spatial variables, in a diffusion equation \( u_t - \Delta_x u - u_{yy} +a(t, x) u = f(t,x,y) \),…
The inverse first-passage problem for a Wiener process $(W_t)_{t\ge0}$ seeks to determine a function $b{}:{}\mathbb{R}_+\to\mathbb{R}$ such that \[\tau=\inf\{t>0| W_t\ge b(t)\}\] has a given law. In this paper two methods for approximating…
This paper investigates an inverse random source problem for stochastic evolution equations, including stochastic heat and wave equations, with the unknown source modeled as $g(x)f(t)\dot{W}(t)$. The research commences with the…
We study the inverse problem of recovery a non-linearity $f(x,u)$, which is compactly supported in $x$, in the semilinear wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u+ f(x,u)=0$. We probe the medium with either complex or real-valued harmonic waves of…
From the algebraic solution of $x^{n}-x+t=0$ for $n=2,3,4$ and the corresponding solution in terms of hypergeometric functions, we obtain a set of reduction formulas for hypergeometric functions. By differentiation and integration of these…
We want to prove a Harnack type inequality for solutions of strongly degenerate parabolic, or elliptic-parabolic, equations. To do that, we first define a De Giorgi class of order $p = 2$ that contains the solutions of evolution equations…
This paper is addressed to an inverse stochastic hyperbolic equation with three unknowns, i.e., a source term, an initial displacement and an initial velocity. The global uniqueness is proved by a new global Carleman estimate for the…
This paper considers the inverse problem of recovering both the unknown, spatially-dependent conductivity $a(x)$ and the nonlinear reaction term $f(u)$ in a reaction-diffusion equation from overposed data. These measurements can consist of:…
This paper addresses several geometric inverse problems for some linear parabolic systems where the initial data (and sometimes also the coefficients of the equations) are unknown. The goal is to identify a subdomain within a…
Let $A$ be an arbitrary positive selfadjoint operator, defined in a separable Hilbert space $H$. The inverse problems of determining the right-hand side of the equation and the function $\phi$ in the non-local boundary value problem…
This paper is concerned with the forward and inverse problems for the fractional semilinear elliptic equation $(-\Delta)^s u +a(x,u)=0$ for $0<s<1$. For the forward problem, we proved the problem is well-posed and has a unique solution for…
Consider the equation $$ u'(t)-\Delta u+|u|^\rho u=0, \quad u(0)=u_0(x), (1), $$ where $ u':=\frac {du}{dt}$, $ \rho=const >0, $ $x\in \mathbb{R}^3$, $t>0$. Assume that $u_0$ is a smooth and decaying function, $$\|u_0\|\:=\sup_{x\in…
In this work the authors consider an inverse source problem in the following stochastic fractional diffusion equation $$\partial_t^\alpha u(x,t)+\mathcal{A} u(x,t)=f(x)h(t)+g(x) \dot{\mathbb{W}}(t).$$ The interested inverse problem is to…
We consider the transport equation $\ppp_tu(x,t) + (H(x)\cdot \nabla u(x,t)) + p(x)u(x,t) = 0$ in $\OOO \times (0,T)$ where $\OOO \subset \R^n$ is a bounded domain, and discuss two inverse problems which consist of determining a…
We survey some of our recent results on inverse problems for evolution equations. The goal is to provide a unified approach to solve various types of evolution equations. The inverse problems we consider consist in determining unknown…
The Schr\"odinger equation $i \partial_t^\rho u(x,t)-u_{xx}(x,t) = p(t)q(x) + f(x,t)$ ( $0<t\leq T, \, 0<\rho<1$), with the Riemann-Liouville derivative is considered. An inverse problem is investigated in which, along with $u(x,t)$, also a…
The inverse problem of determining the right-hand side of the subdiffusion equation with the fractional Caputo derivative is considered. The right-hand side of the equation has the form $f(x)g(t)$ and the unknown is function $f(x)$. The…
The inverse problem of identifying the unknown spacewise dependent source F(x) in 1D wave equation is considered. Measured data are taken in the form g(t) := u(0; t). The relationship between that problem and Ground Penetrating Radar (GRR)…
This paper is concerned with the resolution of an inverse problem related to the recovery of a scalar (potential) function $V$ from the source to solution map, of the semi-linear equation $(\Box_{g}+V)u+u^3=0$ on a globally hyperbolic…
We consider inverse scattering problems for the three-dimensional Hartree equation. We prove that if the unknown interaction potential $V(x)$ of the equation satisfies some rapid decay condition, then we can uniquely determine the exact…